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A motorist with a history of drunken driving and who was high on a cocktail of illicit drugs when he fatally struck a man walking on a Duluth sidewalk has been sentenced.
David Andrew Smithson, 27, of Duluth, was sentenced Monday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of a controlled substance when his minivan struck and killed 37-year-old Brian Respler on Dec. 19.
With credit for time served in jail since his arrest, Smithson will spend a little more than two years in prison and serve the remainder of his term on supervised release. Smithson also was ordered to pay $7,500 in restitution for Respler’s funeral expenses.
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